Bottle.



J.B.GOL6N.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.20,1912

1,0?5,900. Patented 0011 11913.

entor q Attorneys JOSE B. COLON, 03F GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE.

BOTTLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 20, 1912. Serial No. 721,503.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSE B. COLN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Greeneville, in the county of Greene and State of Tennessee,have invented a new and useful Bottle, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to bottles and more particularly to bottles ofthat type designed for holding medicine.

Heretofore prescription bottles have been found objectionable becauseliquid flowing or drip ing from the mouths of the bottles often (fi opsonto the label aflixed to the bottle and obliterates the prescriptionnumber so that it is thusimpossible to determine the number of theprescription when it is desired to renew the same.-

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide the bottlewith means I whereby any liquid which may flow or drip ferred formof themvention has downwardly'from the mouth thereof will be deflectedlaterall so as not to pass onto the label afiixed'to e bottle.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter de--scribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

. In the accompanying drawings the reliben shown.

In said drawin :Figure 1 is a front elevation of a'bott 0 having thepresent improvements combined therewith. Fig. 2 is a 'rear elevationthereof. Fig. 3 is a section on line A-B Fig. 1. Fi 4 is a sectionthrough a 'ortion of a 'ghtly modified form of ho a.

Referring to the by characters of.

reference 1 designates a rescription bottle of any desired contour andthe shoulder portion 2 of the bottle has a drain channel or groove 3ressed into the .front portion. thereof, this channel being preferablyextended about half around the bottle and being preferably formed withits middle portion upper-most and its discharge ends lowermost sothatany liquid which may be deposited in the channel or groove willdrain to one end or the other of the channel. The label, which has beenindicated at 4, is to be affixed to the bottle directly below the middleportion of the channel 3. 0bviously, therefore, any liquid which mayflow downwardly along the front portion of the bottle neck or which maydrip downwardly from the front portion of the mouth of the bottle, willbe received by the channel 3 and conveyed laterall so as not to flowdownwardly onto the abel.

It will be seen that a channel such as herein described can be readilyformed within the bottle Without adding ,to the cost thereof and withoutweakening the bottle or marring its appearance.

Instead of forming a depression in the front of the bottle, anoutstandin' rib such as shown at 5 in Fig. 4 can be use What is claimedis A bottle having a label receivin surface and means for protectingsaid sur ace from drippings from the bottle neck, said means including agutter formed in the bottle above the label receiving space, the saidtter draining onto the outer surface of the ottle at points removed fromthe label receiving space.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy slgnature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSE B. coLo Witnesses:

W. H. HAwKINs, CHAS. L, Born.

Patented (let. 1d, 1913.

